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Shepherds of the sea : destroyer escorts in World War II /Robert F. Cross. Cross, Robert F., 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.1(73)"1939/1945"

Admiralty manual of seamanship / by command of the Defence council fleet commander & deputy chief of naval staff ; Naval staff author: Vic Vance. Great Britain.-Admiralty. 2015. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.052

Undersea warriors : the untold history of the Royal Navy's secret service /Iain Ballantyne. The dramatic untold story of Britain's most-silent service and of the Cold War beneath the waves--especially the frozen north--particularly British attack and nuclear submarines spying on the Soviets. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

Essex class aircraft carriers of the Second World War / Steve Backer ; plans by Alan Raven ; colour profiles by Steve Wiper ; photographic consultant A D Baker. "Built in larger numbers than any fleet carrier before or since, the Essex class can claim to be the US Navy's most significant weapon in the defeat of Japan. Carrying up to 100 aircraft and capable of absorbing enormous punishment (not one was sunk), they spearheaded the Fast Carrier Task Forces for most of the Pacific War."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.820155

Autobiography / Captain J.R. Gower. Gower, J.R., • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92GOWER

Safe moor'd in Greenwich tier : a study of the skeletons of Royal Navy sailors and marines excavated 2008. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.292:616.7GREENWICH

Britannia's bulwarks : the achievements of our seamen, the honours of our ships /edited by Commander Charles N. Robinson. Robinson, Charles N.-(Charles Napier), 1901. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)

Home is the sailor / John Whelan Whelan, John 1957 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"19"

US naval history sources in the United States Allard, Dean C., 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(73):930.253.4

British warships & auxiliaries : 2018 /Steve Bush "The fully revised and updated, well respected guide to the ships, aircraft and weapons of the fleet. Over 80 colour photos. Complete with pennant numbers and silhouettes. Now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels. This year it will include an entry for the newly commissioned aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH. The book starts with a 'no-holds barred' review of the state of the Royal Navy followed by sections detailing the fleets of the Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the support vessels operated under contract by Serco. Also included are the vessels of the Royal Marines, Army and the Border Force. Each class entry includes a full colour photograph together with a class listing, pennant numbers, technical specifications and brief notes. Similar sections cover the aircraft and weapons operated by the Royal Navy. The book concludes with a listing of those ships preserved within the UK and operating in a secondary role after decommissioning and a summary of those vessels which have been scrapped since the previous edition."--Provided by the publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)

Naval families, war and duty in Britain, 1740-1820 / Ellen Gill A study of the competing commitments of family and service in the lives of eighteenth-century seamen. The author has drawn on correspondence from naval and military officers, ordinary sailors and their families, as welll as petitions to the Admiralty Board for support submitted by Royal Dockyard workers and the naval mutineers at Spithead and the Nore. The correspondence reveals the practicalities of parenthood and family life during wartime and also the importance of patronage and networks for progression. Correspondents featured include Philip Bowes Vere Broke and his wife Sarah Louisa (Loo), Matthew Flinders and his wife Ann, Thomas Woods Knollis and his wife Mary, George Perceval, Henry Jenkinson, William Waldegrave, Everard Home, William Edward Fiott, William Webley-Parry, Susanna Middleton, George and Elizabeth Bass, Sarah Sturgeon, Anna Walker and James and Elizabeth Whitworth. The text is supported by a detailed bibliography. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2

The English and French navies, 1500-1650 : expansion, organisation and state-building /Benjamin W. D. Redding. "Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England. This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in correspondence and memoirs, official reports and accounts, receipts of the exchequer and inventories in both France, where the sources are disparate and dispersed, and England, the book explores the rise of both kingdoms' naval resources from the early sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. As a comparative study, it shows that, in sharing the Channel and with both countries increasing their involvement in maritime affairs, English and French naval expansion was intertwined. Directly and indirectly, the two kingdoms influenced their neighbours' sea programmes. The book first examines the administrative transformations of both navies, then goes on to discuss fiscal and technological change, and finally assesses the material expansion of the respective fleets. In so doing it demonstrates the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early modern Europe. One important argument challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0094209031

The Mediterranean Fleet, 1930-1939 / edited by Paul G. Halpern, Professor Emeritus, Florida State University. "The Mediterranean Fleet entered the 1930s looking back to the lessons of Jutland and the First World War but also seeking to incorporate new technologies, notably air power. Unfortunately in the depression years of the early 1930s there was a lack of funds to remedy deficiencies. The problem became critical during the Abyssinian crisis of 1935. The crisis wound down by mid-1936 but the respite did not last long. In June 1936 the Spanish Civil War broke out and the Mediterranean Fleet was soon involved in evacuations of British and other endangered foreigners from Spanish ports as well as the protection of British flagged merchant ships in the war zone. In addition to the Spanish Civil War there was an increase of tension with Germany in 1938 that culminated with the Czechoslovak crisis in September. The situation of the Mediterranean Fleet and its possible actions had the Munich agreement not been reached are described. The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939 with the victory of the Nationalists and the Mediterranean Fleet was again involved in evacuations. By now the prospect of war with Germany and possibly Italy was quite clear and serious preparations for war continued. The plans for war in the Mediterranean are reproduced in detail." --Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22NRS

H.M.S. Rodney / Iain Ballantyne. Ballantyne, Iain, 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82RODNEY

British Columbia place names project : A - Royal Naval officers and ships /R.E. Mckechnie. Notes on places in British Columbia named after Royal Navy ships or officers, arranged alphabetically by place name. 19??] • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 971.1

Naval seamen's women in nineteenth-century Britain / Melanie Holihead. "This book explores the lived experiences of the women - the mothers, sisters, foster-mothers of motherless children, but above all the wives - of lower deck seamen in the nineteenth century British navy. It makes extensive use of the 'allotment' scheme, a system which enabled men to convey portions of their pay to dependants at home. The scheme had been devised by a Royal Navy worried by the adverse effect on naval manpower caused by experienced and mature sailors quitting the service in order to support loved ones suffering poverty on shore. Drawing also on civil, parish and local data, the book reveals hitherto unknown differences between naval and civilian patterns of nuptiality, family life, occupation and household structure. It illustrates the impact of naval breadwinners' long-term absence in analyses of local migration, mutual support networks, and clusterings of 'same ship' families, and to bring the picture to life it includes microhistories and stories of individual women. The book concludes that while the sailor's woman's 'allotted place' in the popular imagination shifted with changing perceptions of sailors' reputation and standing, a constant 'otherness' attached to women who chose marriage to long-absent men, and a life of necessary self-reliance." 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.120941

County of Kent, to make certain Allowances to old, infirm, or wounded or disabled Officers in the Royal Navy Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1806 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.292Greenwich

Dictionary of American naval fighting ships : volumes 1-8 United States.-Navy Department 1959-1981 • BOOK • 8 copies available. 623.82(73)(03)

British flag officers in the French wars, 1793-1815 : admirals' lives /John Morrow. "During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy's critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals' roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically. British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material. By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals' professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.333.3(42:44)"1793/1815"

War and trade in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / Olaf U. Janzen. Janzen, Olaf Uwe, 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. NN 4040

More lives than a ship's cat / Jeremy Stoke. "By any standards Mick Stoke's experiences in the Royal Navy during the Second World War were remarkable. Aged nineteen, he was 'Mentioned in Despatches' and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his courage during incessant bombing during the Siege of Tobruk. He survived multiple torpedo attacks, firstly serving on the cruiser Glasgow, which was hit twice; on the battleship Queen Elizabeth at sea and blown up by human torpedoes at Alexandria; and on HMS Hardy, struck in January 1944, while escorting Russian Arctic Convoy JW56B. In 1942, he was serving on HMS Carlisle during the fiercely fought Malta convoys and took part in the Battle of Sirte. Later that year he was awarded the MBE 'for outstanding bravery, resource and devotion to duty during very heavy bombing' at the port of Bone during Operation TORCH. He went on to serve at D-Day and later in the Pacific on HMS Rajah. It is a privilege to read Mick Stoke's graphic and modest account of his naval service in the Second World War. Readers will appreciate and understand how he became 'The Most Highly Decorated Midshipman in the Royal Navy'." --Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92STOKE

The press gang : naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain /Nicholas Rogers. The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in achieving its ends. He also shows the limits to its operations and the press gang's need for cooperation from local authorities, who were by no means prepared to support it.--From publisher description. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.212(42)

Cats and cathedrals / by Patrick Boniface. "After nuclear bombs fell on Nagasaki and Hiroshima the world's Navies realised in the future they would be fighting a very different war. In response The Royal Navy started construction of new improved warships. One of the vessels to emerge was a new type of frigate that became the Type 41 Leopard and Type 61 Salisbury classes. Each shared a common hull, but was specially tailored for specific roles within the fleet. The 41 frigates took the names of Big Cats whilst the 61 frigates were given names of Cathedral Cities and each ship played an important role in the post war Royal Navy. This book details the design, construction and service careers of all the ships of the two classes and of three Type 41's constructed for the Indian Navy."--Provided by the publisher 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.6(42)

Champion of the quarterdeck : Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower (1742-1814) /Ian M Bates "Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower is little known today, having never been one to blow his own trumpet. From humble beginnings as a captain's servant in 1755 he rose on his own merit, over more than 50 years, to the top of his profession. Living by old-fashioned values of loyalty and service, Gower's humanity and concern for others gained him the approbation and loyalty of his officers, crews and peers. Although recognised by his contemporaries as a leading navigator, he has been overlooked by historians until now. While many Royal Navy officers achieved fame for leadership, isolated acts of bravery or great discoveries, Gower accomplished a diversified and esteemed career that no other officer in the Georgian Navy could claim to equal. He was explorer, master navigator, commander-in-chief, Governor and diplomat. Having rejected great wealth for the sake of the Navy, he was knighted, conveyed a first-of-its-type diplomatic mission to China, charted unexplored seas, received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament and was pivotal in suppressing the Nore mutiny. He sat on the largest court martial in the Navy's history, was appointed Governor of Newfoundland and a full admiral, having personally shared in the capture of more than fifty enemy ships during his career. Every warship in the Age of Sail was a training ground for seamen, and every captain exerted extraordinary influence over his men. While some good men stumbled under oppressive officers, others thrived under thoughtful leadership such as Gower's. A constant supporter of young men of promise, he championed and developed the careers of several of Nelson's 'Band of Brothers' in what latter-day historians have termed 'Nelson's Navy'. Many others followed Gower from ship to ship and subsequently mapped out significant naval careers. As an upright and loyal champion of His Majesty's Navy during a career of remarkable exploits and achievements, Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower is to be celebrated for his unswerving devotion to duty and his training of many who were to follow in his footsteps with integrity and fortitude."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92GOWER

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